The Collaboration Incubator is a participatory format, where you can learn about ‚social technologies‘ - mainly group facilitation processes - which integrate activism and intuition. The aim of the program is to figure out ways to support each other in what we are currently working with – as part of a movement, an organization or as individuals. Related to that, we are also using the group's creativity and intelligence to look at a bigger shared question: „How to help building momentum for global grassroots democracy?“.
With this idea in mind, we were inviting people who feel dedicated to progressive movements and/or progressive ideas around changing things from the ground up.
The report has an emphasis on the most recent incubator in Oakland, California, since a local funding from TRCC thrivingresilience.org enabled it. It builds on and integrates content, learning and experiences of the two previous Berlin incubators. It’s a years’ report.

We tried to never miss an opportunity to harvest our experience by using the different mediums provided.

Emilia designed notebooks for us as part of her co-responsibility role with the media & design team.

Video diaries were captured throughout the entire workshop to give space for a different way of reflection. We checked in during the mornings and at the end of the day to reflect on what we learned, how we felt and to

share our hopes for the next day. This is Daniel reflecting on the last day of the workshop.

Gretchen's reflection and check-in on day 3 described how

she felt being in the City of Oakland. How the city and the

workshop influenced her and what she can take back to her

hometown of Bend, Oregon, where she’s working with

indigenous people and doing rites of passage work.

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Fyodor's reflections and final check-out has been about a

lot of appreciation for our group: ‚it’s been unique and this

space allowed us to see each other from very different

perspectives‘. What he takes home is a deep inquiry around

the purpose and the deep grounding – ‚the deep why‘ – of

change work: ‚Not everybody who paints is an artist‘!

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Towards the end of the Dragon Dreaming process, we came up with themes we need to focus

on, in order to make our dream of a collaboration come true: a real tangible entity,

‚connecting democratic diversity, vision, and how we work were the themes we identified as

being essential for moving forward.

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Manuela's final reflections

– feeling exhausted and very happy

about the kindness and intensive level

of engagement from everyone.

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Ksenia was filming the video diaries and these are her final remarks:

“…building democracy really starts from the heart. We all bring our own experiences to the democracy building process… our personal why.

Why we are here, why we are doing this. We clearly are all interested in staying connected and doing something bigger… I feel like in these 3 days

we were able to share our stories and build upon or stories to fully open up, and now we can starting doing the work, now we can start building, so

this is how I feel! – let’s start creating something!

ABOUT THE

COLLABORATION

INCUBATOR

The CollaborationIncubator is a participatory format, where you can learn about Evolutionary Leadership

approaches and where you can experience Social Presencing Theater and Dragon Dreaming in action – both

social technologies which integrate activism and intuition.

The aim of the workshop is to figure out ways to support each other in what we are currently working with –

as part of a movement, an organization or as individuals. Related to that, we are also using the group's creativity

and intelligence to look at a bigger shared question: „How to help building momentum for global grassroots

democracy?“.

With this idea in mind, we are inviting people who feel dedicated to progressive movements and/or progressive

ideas around changing things from the ground up.

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VISIONS ON

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTED DEMOCRACY

OPEN DEFINITION OF GLOBAL DISTRIBUTED DEMOCRACY

global

distributed

democracy

beyond borders

beyond race

beyond bubbles

inclusive

equal

…

participatory

empty centered

self-organized

grassroots

organic process

…

governance

doing it together

organizing sustainability

living in peace

every voice counts

…

‚the understanding of what global

distributed democracy is and could be,

has been one of the most critical

discussion points in all the incubators

so far. we did not come to a common

conclusion, and we might never do. but,

the people it calls together, and the

conversations it fuels, are worth all

discomfort coming from not being able

to give an answer.’ -

manuela bosch – collaboration incubator initiator

WHAT DOES GLOBAL DISTRIBUTED

OKL1810

DEMOCRACY MEAN FOR US?

Outcome of discussions and idea collection about what 'global

distributed democracy‘ could mean for us has little to do with

elections and governing institutions.

building an immune system

community organizing

co-creating commons

reconnecting people with what they can do today

starting from the soil & roots, from there we plant seeds

new technology for collaborative organizing democratically

connecting projects – understanding what everyone is doing today

playground for prototypes & principles

tools for resilience

civic engagement at a local level will begin to change things globally

helping transfer to other places, what works in one place (cross-pollinate)